Idealism versus realism
Most problems are created by people who use the methodology of stupidity. Yes, stupidity can be a practice/procedure/approach or system. How else can we explain load-shedding, increased cost of water and other problems that have practical solutions but which are ignored by the authorities?
I have attended enough seminars to know that solutions are available as they exist elsewhere.
Example, Argus headline Thursday 16th “Taxi bosses lift blockade on scholar transport” is an example of stupidity. A few years ago the Argus published a letter where I offered a practical solution to the needless mass transportation of learners into the surrounding City of Cape Town.
As a resident of Walmer Estate it is evident the majority of learners at local schools are transported. This includes taxi’s offloading learners onto the N2 and it is a matter of time before chaos erupts. Learners are not valued as taxis off load on the N2 instead of a few metres onto the off-ramp.
This transportation of these learners is unwise as it adds to the daily traffic congestion and increases the carbon footprint that harms the milieu by people who cannot afford it to begin with.
The solution is simple. The learners from Walmer Estate attend school elsewhere as parents pay to send their kids to better resourced schools etc. Middle class parents also have less kids and all the learners in Walmer Estate could not fill the schools in the area as there are not that many learners.
Thus, instead of transporting kids over great distances, the authorities must sell the schools and use the money to build better resourced schools near the learners. This will save learners 2hrs daily in travel time and money in transport cost etc. Consider the reality in winter when it is cold and dark. Learner rise at 5:30am to travel from wherever towards Walmer Estate, is this fair on a 12yr old?
Since land is more valuable near the city and can be sold at massive profits and progress contributes greatly towards the rates base, ratepayers must consider the economics of our existing reality.
The reality is that after 30yrs, District 6 restitution is a joke and after 20 years of load-shedding it is obvious that those in authority are clueless. They simply do not know how to solve problems since most in political authority have never had a business or built anything by themselves. They lack skills.
Voters must grasp that if they do not vote for realistic choices they will lose the little they have. Voting for those who sell fake realities means you are not realistic and maybe deserve to be deluded.
Cllr Yagyah Adams
Cape Muslim Congress